Of course, not for skyrunning “splinter” dabbed into Russian mountaineering. (we do not mean that real skyrunning, which has been managed by Andrew Puchinin and Gleb Sokolov, with great seven-thousanders speed climbs. But the another one, which was born in Europe and means running at low altitude in the mountain terrain.

All reasonable people understood that skyrunning isn’t the mountaineering. Whatever the new theorists composed in Russia, mountain speed climbs came up with climbers, and they haven’t seen such competitions in means "for all".

Revival of the tradition of an annual competition for high-speed ascent of Mount Elbrus. Development and popularization of climbing.

Attracting the attention of world climbing community to the rich possibilities of recreation in the Elbrus region in particular and at the Caucasus in whole, which is especially important in view of large investments allocated by the Government on the development of tourist infrastructure in the Caucasus!